We Need Mountains
Poems on Creation Care and World Powers
- Arts & Literature
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2021
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Publisher's Description
About three-fourths of the poems in this book are concerned with the world around us, which we need to protect and preserve. They are the necessary prelude to the importance of creation care, which is addressed specifically in the concluding poems. The mountains and valleys are a source of sustenance for human beings, as well as for their animal population. The season cycles in the mountains are a delight with the tree leaves changing color. Riverbeds become almost dry from lack of rain, but in late spring they flow with the waters of melting snow. With each change of season, the sun circles the earth and sheds its light on places passed over in a previous season. This is experienced particularly in the mountain ranges of North America. They provide an amazing diversity of landscape, flora, and fauna, and options for the human food chain. Global warming, however, threatens the seasons, the life of the mountains' flora and fauna, and even the ozone layer of the heavens. Hence, there is a call for creation care. Unless world powers step up and commit to preserving nature, forthcoming catastrophes can be clearly foreseen through careful scientific analysis. The responsibility is in the hands of the world's most powerful nations.
Endorsements (3)
“How do humans learn to remember? We repeat what we hear. We say what we see. When seeing and saying begin to rhyme, sights and sounds are locked into a pattern of meaning. Call it acoustic encoding or poetry, our brains retain this lyric experience linked with visual images. If we’re to be good guardians of creation, we need rhymes like these about mountains that embed histories of indigenous peoples, songs of the folly of fossil fuel, wisdom about geese that get our goose, and a theopoetic about the wonder of water.”
“With exquisite and loving attention and a profound awareness of tragedy, this book of elegies shows us a majestic world under threat and of death, and also the beauty of its creatures, both human and nonhuman, who make the mountains of this earth living landscapes.”
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